O'REILLY: You can understand how people like me and maybe a lot of people watching think you are a loony lefty when your book, 'Fanatics & Fools,' which I like the title, but I hope you are not in that group, is endorsed by the following: Molly Ivins; Bill Maher, Bill Moyers; and Larry David. Why don't you get Che Guevara on that, oh, he's dead. How about Fidel Castro? Come on, they are the far left fringe. That's who you're hanging with, Arianna. ...

O'REILLY: You don't think Molly Ivins is a socialist, read her books. She even admitted it.

HUFFINGTON: I have read her books. Bill, let me just say something. They are Americans, the same kind of Americans...

O'REILLY: Ted Bundy was an American.

HUFFINGTON: Oh come on.

O'REILLY: All right. That is a joke. That is a joke. Just kidding.

Ivins, Maher, Moyers, and David, of course, hold no brief for Fidel Castro or Ted Bundy. Ivins, for example, called Castro a "Bad Man" in print less than three years ago; less than four years ago, she wrote, "I truly think Fidel Castro is a bad, bad man."

O'Reilly also claimed that the American people "despise" Ivins, Maher, Moyers, and David:

O'REILLY: We have common ground but the problem I think that you have fallen into, with all due respect, because I like you, I want your book to do OK, is that you are hanging out with fringe people, all right, who Americans despise. They do. They despise these people because these people are just ramming socialism and stuff like that down people's throats.

As for the mainstream appeal of David -- the director, writer, and co-creator of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld -- here are some numbers:

The O'Reilly Factor's nightly viewership during the Iraq War*: 4.4 million

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